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Ah, if I had known you were there today John I might have made the effort to drive around the corner and go. We umm'd and arrrr'd about setting off for Lucksall until midday, then decided it was too windy for towing the caravan. Probably just drive down for the day tomorrow I think.

What price was the Esprit?

Listed at £2900 I think Tim but there seemed to be room to flex on that. I think I could have got it for around £2.5K which I thought would be a good price for a quality 6" triplet.

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Opticron and Astromedia weren't there. I was going to get a few kids pressies from Astromedia as they sell great educational science projects that can get kids exited and involved in. Never mind eh. Got the filter I wanted, the astronomik UHC E 1.25.

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To those who went today .... did you think the show was well attended?

I was there both days, but I haven't attended in the past. Saturday was busier than Friday. The crowd grew noticeably when a talk was over. My stand stayed busy Saturday afternoon and intermittently on Friday and on Saturday morning.

Some vendors I spoke to said that business was not good, but others were happy.

One thing for sure - the gentlemen running the show are delightful to work with and really want the show to succeed.

All in all, it was a very worthwhile experience even with the plane fare from America.

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One thing for sure - the gentlemen running the show are delightful to work with and really want the show to succeed

Totally. Graham and Martin work very hard to promote and organise the show.

One potential issue I see is that whenever I go, it is normally the same old faces. There is a ton of interest in astronomy from people casually interested though. If it were my show, I would deliberately target new and younger astronomers with the majority of the offerings and kit, but keeping the talks and higher end kit too for us seasoned old sausages.

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I was there both days, but I haven't attended in the past. Saturday was busier than Friday. The crowd grew noticeably when a talk was over. My stand stayed busy Saturday afternoon and intermittently on Friday and on Saturday morning.

Some vendors I spoke to said that business was not good, but others were happy.

One thing for sure - the gentlemen running the show are delightful to work with and really want the show to succeed.

All in all, it was a very worthwhile experience even with the plane fare from America.

- Phyllis

The UK economy is struggling to maintain momentum with everything that is going on. Most evidence points to people prioritising food over other luxury goods (the store, but non-food, retail sector is in a complete mess). Hence I am not surprised that there is less attendance. Additionally things may also be normalising now the BBC no longer promote the previously high profile Stargazers Live series (which did gain peoples interest).

I was intending to go myself on Saturday but other items got in the way.

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I was there both days, but I haven't attended in the past. Saturday was busier than Friday. The crowd grew noticeably when a talk was over. My stand stayed busy Saturday afternoon and intermittently on Friday and on Saturday morning.

Some vendors I spoke to said that business was not good, but others were happy.

One thing for sure - the gentlemen running the show are delightful to work with and really want the show to succeed.

All in all, it was a very worthwhile experience even with the plane fare from America.

- Phyllis

Good to have a perspective over the two days, thanks. I am pleased to hear that it was worthwhile in your view. I really like it as a trade/special interest show. We Brits can sound very negative about something when actually we quite like it. Never so happy as when we're moaning etc etc.